How to implement same page with and without pictures?

...and avoid duplicate content penalty

[smayler]

If I want to offer two versions of the same page, with and without images for size and speed benefit, do I have to change the text to avoid duplication penalty?

Thanks :)

[tedster]

How about using robots meta tag set to noindex,nofollow for one set of pages? Then you should be fine, and you're also in control of which set of pages shows in the SERPs.

[Airportibo]

or you could set a cookie. Of cours this only works if you use scripts to put the pages together...

[bedlam]

Simple method:

Part a: Stylesheet switcher [google.com]
Part b: this in the alternate 'no-image' CSS:

img {display:none;}

Advantage: there is only a single page, so there is no possibility of any kind of 'duplicate content' penalty.

-B

<edit>Ah, I just noticed that you want to be able to serve two different pages. Maybe the stylesheet switcher won't work, but the css should still be useful for you. It shouldn't be too hard to dynamically include one stylesheet instead of another etc based on the cookie approach...</edit>

[drbrain]

How do you decide who gets images and who doesn't?

Or, how does the user decide if they want images or not?

[smayler]

Thank you all for answers.

Simply, I will use your combined version:

Serve no image version as default and have option on the page to turn-on images. It will be through CSS or as a link to a separate page with NoIndex Meta tag.

Users, connected through modem, often give up if they have to wait too long.

Great! Thanks once again :)